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Yes! Another Indiana Jones movie comes to life soon. And this is a particularly adventurous movie to base a party theme on..it works really, really well for kids into loads of fun activities.
Find your inspiration with these ideas:
Gummy Worm Invitation:
Take brown grocery bags and cut invitation-sized pieces of paper out from these bags. From there, write all of your party details on the invitation…you may want to request that the kids bring a change of clothes and/or wear Indy attire. Roll up your invitation into a scroll and tie with twine. You can hand-deliver these invitations…or for some added fun…place a few gummy worms into small burlap pieces of material. Place the scroll at the top of the bag where you will close the bag off with more twine…it’s a unique way to invite the party guests to your own Indy Adventure!
Decorations:
Party America has thematic Indiana Jones Party Supplies available for this party.
Pitch a tent in the backyard that can be used as “base camp” for the kids at the party.
Set up Tiki torches around your yard.
Ask the kids come dressed in Indy attire– tan and khaki clothes. Provide Fedora hats when the kids arrive at your party.
Use table placemats that have maps on them.
Hang maps on the walls.
Travel Posters
Make sure to play the soundtrack
Place rubber spiders, bugs, and snakes on the party table and around the party room.
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Activities:
Definitely organize an Obstacle Course. Ask the kids ion your invitation to bring a spare set of clothes and to wear ones that can get messed up - because your obstacle course should include some mud!
- Think Tug o’ War, Rope Swinging/Climbing, swimming in a small pool, eating donuts off a clothesline, outrunning a boulder, drinking a potion from a plastic goblet, blindfold taste test of gross sounding food…use this list of for Halloween Snack ideas…and place creepy bugs into jars filled with green-tinted water for the kids to identify.
A scavenger hunt is another idea. Here’s one way to organize this:
- Provide a map that’s worn and has crucial bits missing and give each kid a piece of it so they have to work together to find the missing information. Make the treasure something cool like a hollowed out book with something inside that would thrill or a pair of binoculars.
Use a sandbox as a sand pit and have the kids dig for bones!
Purchase rubber snakes and make a snake pit that the kids must dig through to find treasure, i.e. gold chocolate coins.
Use the Halloween trick of having the kids stick their hands into cold cooked pasta (worms) to find eyeballs (wet grapes)
Play Hot Boulder, just like Hot Potato.
Play Pin the Fedora on Indiana Jones
Organize a relay race where the kids must outrun a huge boulder, just like Indy, using a big exercise ball.
Use a rope and have the kids take turns lasso-ing things!
Organize a Ring Toss over Tiki Heads.
If the weather doesn’t cooperate, or if this is an over-nighter, show the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Party Menu:
Recreate the gross out dinner scene from the Temple of Doom.
Serve chicken and pineapple skewers.
Serve trail mix.
Serve cake in half coconut shells or on large leaves or something - don’t give them the luxury of forks unless it’s part of their survival kit.
A Dirt Cake is easy and perfect for this party: cool whip, chocolate pudding and mashed up chocolate wafers with a hidden SURPRISE … gummy worms! Make it ahead of time and then put it in the fridge to keep cold. Or, place the Dirt Cake mixture into individual clear cups with some worms showing through the whipped cream.
Serve Bugs on a log: celery sticks with cream cheese or peanut butter topped with raisins or dried cranberries.)
Use plastic goblets for cups. Make lemon-lime punch filled with gummy worms.
Serve Jell-O as chilled monkey brains and make Beatle Cupcakes.
Place Gummy Bugs on the party table as edible confetti
For your Goody Bag:
Use distressed, torn shirt material to create a small goody pouch that you tie off with twine. Fill it with gummy snakes, worms, marshmallow eyeballs, etc.
Also read:
We had an AWESOME Indiana Jones party for my 5 year old son! It’s hot and rainy here in Florida during the summer, so we had it indoors. I removed most of the furniture from the living room and built a pyramid in one corner with tunnels around the whole room for them to crawl in to get to the pyramid. Inside the pyramid were scary decorations of spiderwebs, snakes, etc. and I put two medium sized plastic bins filled with playing sand and “treasure” (used plastic necklaces, earrings, red, green & clear stones from the craft store as gems, plus gold coins) and one of the games was that they climbed through the tunnels two at a time and dug for treasure, came out of the pyramid through a tunnel at the other end and before they were done, they went inside a blow up pool filled with styrofoam peanuts and there were special coins at the bottom of the pool and they had to find one. The tunnels were made with wardrobe boxes and then covered with black plastic. My walls were covered with scene setters that looked like tiki walls & dungens and had tiki torches and palm trees all around. The table in the room was covered with the Indiana Jones table cloth from the party store and I had ordered a skull that lit up and changed colors…that was in the center on a gold plastic plate that had the “gems” and necklaces and snakes and spiders on it. There was “treasure” and bugs & snakes spread all over the table along with Indiana Jones M&M’s and Hershey’s gold nugget chocolates on plastic silver plates that I found at the dollar store. I had silk trees in the room with Christmas lights on them and plastic necklaces hanging in the tree with blow up monkeys. I darkened the entire room with black plastic table covers and also had the 6′ blow up totems in the room. I put up Indiana Jones posters and had about 100 black balloons all over the floor. Indiana Jones’ movies were playing on the TV and on mute while the soundtrack CD played the music. For the entrance to the room, I took gray plastic table covers and used black & white paint to paint bricks on them to look more like a dungen and hung them over fishing line that was secured with hooks. I ordered some scene setter props that are plastic that you cut out that look like dungen doors, torches, etc. and put those on there as well so it looked like they were walking into a tomb. Their eyes lit up when they walked into this huge room filled with all of the Indiana Jones things! I had battery operated candles that I found at Target on the table with the lit skull and the Christmas lights on the tress and around the room, so it had an eery feel to it…with spider webs everywhere as well. They didn’t want to do the toilet paper mummy game, so we did the treasure hunting game and I also took 10 two liter bottles and painted them with black paint and printed out skull pictures and glued them on and put snakes on them and bought plastic rings that they played a ring toss game with. As everyone was getting there and to get the party started, I ordered these paper pyramids that everyone got and they colored and decorated with stickers, etc. So, they got to take those home along with any treasure they found and I found some Indiana Jones coloring books at the dollar store. Oh…I also had the Indiana Jones paper hats for them and foam swords that they played with and took home as well. Everyone brough their own flashlights for the tunnels. For the invitiation, I made them up on tan linen paper and designed them on printshop, then burnt the edges and gave them that burnt, torn look…very cool. They had to bring the invitation to the party with their special code that spelled out “Indiana Jones” once they were all together. I made the cake myself and did a stacked pyramid…it was awesome! A terrific party that was LOTS of fun!
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